Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

Blech to all of that!

i'm the drummer from boy dad

boy mum wtf

Also: binky

"full-throated"

all cutesy-lazy-portmanteu journalistic crap like 'Brexit' and "Hiddleswift' and so on

"Taylor Swexits Social Media After Kimye ELindaTrip-P her!"

"melts down", as it's now being used as a pejorative term to describe anybody who gets upset on camera, regardless of the magnitude of the reaction or even the validity of it

(x) just (y) and it was (z)

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, February 13, 2017 8:35 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Especially when it gets used by proper newspapers about proper news. The Independent seem to be doing it a lot. It feels like something broadsheets are going to do a lot of and further deepen a gulf (if you can deepen a gulf? de-bridge?)

man this Nazi punching thing has really taken off, where were all these people in the 40s?

Nazi shooting

brb gonna kick a conquistador in the nuts

http://unionstreet.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/supermanhitlerpunch.jpg

"baby bump"

especially when they're being "debuted"

And especially given most of the time they ARENT ONE.

Remembered a documentary about romance/love story readers and writers. Some of it focused on the husband of one of the readers. He was quite macho and he stood by his personal bookshelves with his arms folded and said "the male of the species likes to improve himself".

"nom nom"

cukes

smashed potatoes

cukes is awful yeah

"ya" instead of "yes."

There's a local pub/restaurant with a sandwich called a Cool Hand Cuke

"one in the same"

"Operating in silos"

What, grain workers or sumthin'?

doing a disservice

"No, yeah" in conversation. Or the other way around.

food coma / food baby

Oh just all words terrible things really the tyranny of language eh

don't drag my legit feelings in, this thread is all bollocks afaic

"life experience"

"Operating in silos"

― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, March 1, 2017 6:42 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost every single presentation i've seen in my field uses the word "silos"

"licking his wounds"

gross dude

I've moved from the bizspeak world to the psychobabble world, and recently caught myself telling some coworkers (after venting about some social work stuff), "thanks for letting me process that!"

ctrl+F - "spitballing" = 0

amazing. anyway, SPITBALLING

i kind of unashamedly love psychobabble and therapy jargon. i was in therapy for five years and i'm married to a social worker, have a lot of social worker friends

<3 "process"

"thought process"

"thought process" is ok. it's stupid but unoffensive imo.

silo/silo mentality is an old one in corpspeak.

"made that ask"

like instead of "I asked them that question", it's "I made that ask". wtf

that sounds a bit clumsy tho "ask" as a noun has been around since the 10th century

Here’s an OED example in modern English from a Dec. 8, 1781, letter by the scholar Thomas Twining (whose grandfather founded the Twinings tea empire):

“I am not so unreasonable as to desire you to take notice of all the stuff I scribble, or answer all my asks.” (We’ve expanded on the citation.)

And here’s an example from The Laws and Principles of Whist, an 1886 book written by “Cavendish” (the pen name of Henry Jones): “When your three comes down in the next round, it is not an ask for trumps.”

these seem to be functioning as informal elisions of the more common (but still not very common) 'askings'

i'll use ask in that way. the v popular idiom, from apparently the 80s, is "that's a big ask," which i think i prefer to "that's asking a lot" because of the emphasis it puts on the difficulty of the thing being requested vs. the impudence of the person doing the asking.

It's not really that different, semantically speaking, from "request," which has also had noun and verb forms for centuries.

"I request that you eat my shorts." / "That's a big request."

"I ask that you eat my shorts." / "That's a big ask."

One could simply say that the objection is aesthetic (sounds yucky), and/or cultural (yucky people say it).

For some reason, when people latch onto a usage they don't like, they often say "ZOMG HORRID BIZSPEAK JARGON NEOLOGISM THAT MUST BE STOPPED." They could just say "I don't like this usage, no matter where it came from and no matter how old or young it is."

"Don't bring me problems - bring me solutions".

mostly cos usually the person who says it is the one that created the problem and this is usually said when someone is merely asking for help with the solution to the problem you just dumped in their lap 5 minutes ago

also "Today is a gift - that's why they call it the present", which several co-workers used to have as their tag on instant messaging

Ugh half my colleagues have cod-awful motivational sayings on their Skype profiles. I'm sure its just to look good to the bosses.